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15 September 2023 | Link to podcast episode
Really candid episode where a founder Liz Zalman, and her investor Jerry Neumann discuss the challenges of being a startup founder, fundraising and venture capital from their distinct perspectives, as a founder and as a VC. Liz doesnt hold anything back, talking abt her investors who dont get into the nitty gritties with her, or dont really come prepared to board meetings, …
6 September 2023 | Link to podcast
Enjoyed this wide-ranging chat between Nikhil (NBT) and Harry Stebbings. Having enjoyed Nikhil’s writing previously, this was a concentrated dose of NBT that I was happy to have. What stood out for me from the convo – his perspectives on how he prioritises traction (or early signs of PMF) over the market when it comes to picking, how he tries to avoid getting …
Link to podcast | 30 August, 2023
If you are a GP or an aspiring GP (or even just a venture nerd) you will enjoy this podcast episode. There was so much I learnt from this one; a lot of it being very tactical advice around fundraising from LPs, such as on how to segment the LP market, how to construct your top of funnel, and ensuring that your discussions …
14th July 2023 | Link to podcast
Good fun chat between fintech investor Sheel Mohnot, also one of the more colourful personalities on startup twitter, and 20VC host Harry Stebbings. Sheel is forthright with his takes and perspectives covering topics such as why he thinks there is no right way in venture (many paths work per him), why the venture industry would be better off with reduced fund sizes …
23 June 2023 | Podcast Link
Rob Go is a co-founder and Partner at NextView, investors in Attentive, Devoted Health, Whoop etc. Before co-founding NextView, Rob was a VC at Spark Capital and a PM at ebay.
This is a terrific podcast giving you the inner mechanics and dynamics of raising a venture fund. It goes behind the scenes of what it is to raise a VC fund from LPs …
Link to interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=545HHo4Z79U 1-2 Dec 2021
This is an edited transcript of an onstage chat between Christina Cacioppo, founder & CEO of Vanta, and Andrew Reed from Sequoia, who led the Series A into Vanta. Covers a bunch of useful themes around product-market fit (PMF) and early phase of launching, including how they worked with design partners and didn’t start coding till they saw strong resonance with the MVP …
Link to podcast: https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/jennifer-hyman/ | 28th June 2023
Sajith Pai: Relevant excerpts & highlights from the transcript I helped organise below (the podcast publisher didn’t have a transcript for this episode). Loved her observations on hiring for strengths (and not worrying about their weaknesses), how going public (and the process of doing so) helped her relook at her business in the right light and reorganise the costs, why she …
Link to podcast + transcript | 30th April 2023
Sajith: Bessemer Venture Partners is one of the OGs of the venture industry. Lots here to learn for a venture nerd like me, from this podcast where Patrick O’Shaughnessy hosts three of the senior partners at Bessemer including the legendary Jerermy Levine. I got to learn a lot about how they work together and the Bessemer OS. What i found particularly …
Link to podcast + transcript. 9 May 2023. All words by Fidji Simo unless specified otherwise.
Sajith: Enjoyed this a fair bit. Fidji is a super-operator who ran the Facebook app and now is CEO at Instacart. Very curious hire coming from a digital to a largely physical business, but certainly Instacart having a large and fast-growing ad busines helped.
The podcast is interesting in that it gives you …
Link to Podcast. Link to Transcript. 15 December 2022. Unless specified, all words are by Pete Kazanjy.
Sajith: Relevant for founders of early stage SaaS / B2B companies as well as sales managers or leaders. Pete Kazanjy is well-known for his book Founding Sales which recommends that in early-stage companies, the founder(s) should take a lead in selling because at this stage, what you are looking for is …